Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Hubbard, Elbert. The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard. The Roycrofters, 1927, p. 77.
Arguing the need to limit the power of the legislature:
Iturbide, known also as Agustin I, was the first Emperor of Mexico who was executed by a firing squad.
Description of the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which ruled Mexico for 71 straight years.
Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti. The French King had just opened the French National Assembly which contained deputies (delegates) from the clergy, the nobility and the people. The King had made what some deputies thought was a very constructive and responsible speech opening the assembly. Mirabeau observed that as long as there was an absolute monarch in place, even a benign one. It was the presence of a monarch itself that was evil.
Napoleon had been a great supporter of Napoleon, but had become disillusioned.
The Priest was the right wing demagogic radio host of his day. Virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Black, he was threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, which finally ordered him to cease us weekly radio show and stop the political hate.
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
